Secondary electric battery or accumulator.



W. MOSELEYB SECONDARY ELECTRIC BATTERY 0R AGOUMULATOR.

v AIPLIUATION FILED MAILZQ, 1909 Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

WALKER MOSELEY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

SECONDARY ELECTRIC BATTERY QR ACCUMU'LATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 3. 1909.

application filed march 29, 1909. Serial No. 486,500.

To all whom it may concern:

subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Secondary Electric Batteries or Accumulators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to secondary elec tric batteries or accumulators and has for its object the provision of means whereby the plates carrying the active material are so constructed as to avoid the risk of buckling or ejection of the material, the running cost of the maintenance is very low, and the weight of each plate is reduced compared with known plates of equal output.

My invention consists of forming the plate of a series of suitable cups'of tea or coffee cup or wine glass shape, each provided with a perforated stem so that each cup is supported one) above the other on saidstem by being threaded on a Wire or similar support and adapted to hold the active material. in a lightly consolidated mass under the influence of gravity only, and capable of ready action under the influence of the electrolyte which permeates the body of the active material with a greater facility than in other known forms of plates. 7 In most existing types the law of osmosis which is based on capillary attraction prevents the diffusion of the acid through the porous material.

In order that my invention may. he the better understood I will now proceed to describe the same in'relation to the accompanying drawings reference being had to the letters and figures marked thereon.

Like letters refer to like parts in the various figures.

Figure 1 is a part sectional side view of a celliitted according=to my invention, and Fig. 2 is an end view of Fig. 1.

I form each cup on having a small perforated stem 11 extending upwardly from the bottom of the cup to a point a little higher than the rinijof the cup, and I thread these cups one above the other upon lead or lead covered. wire'sc supported in a frame of lead d, in which the lead covered wires are connected to the upper and lower frames (1 by soldering or by otherwise jointing them thereto. -The upper of these frames rests upon framcsf of valcanite or other insulatmg: material, so as to had upon the outer Be it known that I, WALKER MosELnY,

casing. The electrodeis thus formed out of the cups a -with their filling, the internal lead or lead covered Wires 0, and the top and bottom, pieces of lead (1, connecting these wires 0. These upper frames cl are provided with the usual connecting and terminal fittings e. By stamping upthe cups in this way, 'they can be made veiji thin indeed and the stem of the cup forms the means of support. When the cups have all been threaded On to the wire, the stems are pinched circumferentially soas to grip the same and give a good contact or equivalently the stems and 'the supporting wires are fused together.

In order to furnish the plates made according to my invention with oxid of lead I form a very liquid paste of about the consistency of cream, and I pour the paste into the cups c or I dip the plates into it, so that the cups 7 are .filled with the oxid by natural settlement of the solid particles and not by packing or hydraulic pressure. This method of filling the cups by gravitation improves the molecular state of the active material on which the capacity of. the cell depends, and further the necessity of handling lead oxid with its consequent detrimental effect on they workmen is entirely avoided. The positive and negative-electrodes are divided by trans verse perforated sheets as shown in Fig. 2. Having now particularly described and ascertainedv the natureof this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare tha; t I claim is An a'ccunmlaror plate consisting of a series of conical cups, adapted to receive and hold a semiliquid solution of oxid of lead. each cup being provided with a perforated stem, the said stem being made a little higher than the rim of the cup, vertical rods of lead upon which the said cups are threaded, lower and upper bars of lead to which the said rods are fixed, and cross bars of vulcanite for supporting the upper bars.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification 1n the presence of two R11lmClllilngfbRltIlGSSGS.

WALKER MostLE'Y.

. Witnesses:

LILIAN MARIA MosnLEY, GRACE RosALINn KEMP. 

